Dear Daisuke,

Thank you for your answer.
I was looking at the 3D-SURFER server, it looks great. I'm only trying to
compare pairs (or sometimes triplets) of proteins though. Is there a way to
use 3D-SURFER for that purpose? And would it give me a 3D structural
alignment of the binding sites?

Thanks,

Sarah

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Daisuke Kihara <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear Sarah,
>
> we don't have a server for you to quickly use but our lab has methods for
> alignment-free binding sites comparison by comparing pocket surface shape,
> named Pocket-Surfer and Patch-Surfer.
>
> These are literature:
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20455259
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22275074
>
> http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/10/29/bioinformatics.btu724.abstract
>
> If you are interested, I am happy to discuss what we can do for your
> problem.
> Sincerely,
> Daisuke
> ----
> Daisuke Kihara, Ph.D.
> Professo
> Department of Biological Sciences/Computer Science
> Purdue University
> West Lafayette, IN 47907
> http://kiharalab.org Tel: 1-765-496-2284
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Sarah Barelier <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>> I'm sorry, this is a bit off-topic. I'm looking for a tool to compare
>> pairs of binding sites.
>> It doesn't need to be high-throughput, since I'll only be comparing ~100
>> pairs, but I'd like it to be robust and, more importantly,
>> alignment-independent.
>> Indeed, the binding sites I want to compare are not necessarily related
>> in terms of amino-acid composition, but I'd like to still be able to detect
>> similarities between them.
>> Does anyone have suggestions?
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Sarah
>>
>> --
>> Sarah Barelier, Ph.D.
>> Postdoctoral Researcher
>> Shoichet Lab, UCSF
>> [email protected]
>>
>> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
>> 1700 4th Street, Byers Hall, Room N501
>> San Francisco, CA 94158-2550
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Daisuke
>



-- 
Sarah Barelier, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Shoichet Lab, UCSF
[email protected]

Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
1700 4th Street, Byers Hall, Room N501
San Francisco, CA 94158-2550

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